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I shall check! Also - make sure to filter on British Isles Explorer - not just Neptun so you see all 14 of them. And either use the Show All or Show 2023 button. There are many ways to filter that spreadsheet. 😉

You're welcome. Working on changes to VE that must have been made today because I swear they weren't there yesterday. So will be posting another update tomorrow. But I'm sure (😉) that the VO sked is solid .. for now.

OK .. got it done. Have checked it to a ne'er thee well to make sure I entered the changes correctly and that I captured what changed since my last update (13Jun22). Looking at it now, I'm leaning towards the conclusion that it was driven by an effort to reduce the number of Viking Homelands cruises by half in 2023 (from 16 to 8). Since Neptune hasn't been launched yet and was scheduled for a series of Viking Homelands cruises (5 of them, from May to Aug 2023), I think Viking decided to use Neptune's schedule as the major contributor to that reduction. And then picked away at the schedule for Mars and Venus to finish the job. Doing so allowed them to increase the number of sailings of Eastern Seaboard Explorer from 3 to 7, which even tho it's not during the peak "leaf peeping" season (Star is doing that ..) Jun and July's not bad. Anyway -- here are the changes: Neptune Canceled: Scandinavia & the British Isles and Viking Homelands (May); Scenic Scandinavia (2x June); Viking Homelands (Jun, 2x Jul, Aug); Scandinavia & the British Isles and British Isles Explorer (Aug) Replaced by: Iceland & Norway's Arctic Explorer and Greenland, Iceland, Norway & Beyond (May); Iconic Iceland, Greenland & Canada (June); Eastern Seaboard Explorer (Jun and 3x in July); Iconic Iceland, Greenland & Canada, Iceland & Norway's Arctic Explorer, and Greenland, Iceland, Norway & Beyond (Aug) Mars Canceled: Viking Homelands and Baltic Jewels & the Midnight Sun (Aug) Replaced by: British Isles Explorer (2x in Aug) Venus Canceled: Viking Homelands (2x in Sept) Replaced by: British Isles Explorer (2x in Sept) Added: Scandinavia & the British Isles (Aug) [overlaps 2nd sailing Viking Homelands in Aug & 1st sailing British Isles Explorer in Sept] Please note that I tried to make it easy to see these changes in the spreadsheet by embedding comments in both the "losing" and "gaining" cruises to indicate what cruise(s) replace a "losing" cruise ("replaced by") and what cruise a "gaining" cruise "replaces". The best way to do this is to filter on a ship -- say Neptune -- after using the button to display 2023 only. Be assured, I checked out the schedules for all of 2023 and 2024 for both VO and VE and, except for the changes detailed above, nothing else has changed. I did a spot check on 2022 too and didn't see any changes. Barring some major event (e.g., Russia trying to invade another country) -- do we really expect any changes in 2022? If you already have a copy of this spreadsheet, just use the link provided in the ReadMe tab to download a fresh copy. If not, use this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/smx4xeq1yhq8ymi/Viking Ocean Cruises (2022 to 2024).xlsm?dl=0 to download the latest copy.

I didn't want to be so bold as to make that speculation but yeah I think you're right. Plus what @Peregrina651 said in her reply. Also - this way they get to respond to previously unfilled demand for Eastern Seaboard even if it's not during the height of leaf peeping season!

In the case of Neptune, which experienced the most change, the revision allows for doing multiple sailings of Eastern Seaboard Explorer. I wonder also if Viking Homelands is not as popular? Venus and Mars had some small tweaks.

this is taking longer than I thought it would -- should have it posted tomorrow. Spending time making sure I've captured all the changes AND that I can summarize for you -- correctly -- the nature of the changes made. I think the VO site is stable. Last Monday the schedule was in transition: mixture of sailings being cancelled shown as SOLD OUT and their replacements. Now just have the replacements.

looks like the schedule / ship assignments in summer 2023 experiencing major reshuffling. working on it now and will publish updated sheet soon.

Slave driver! Thoughts of punishment, good works, rewards thereof..... You folks are a hoot! 😉😁

I've just never seen any advantage to working with a third party TA. I always work with the same Viking TA. She and I also probably spend too much time gabbing on the phone about stuff completely unrelated to travel whenever she calls too! 😁

Hmmmm. I work directly with a Viking TA. So..you don't receive any email directly from Viking? Everything comes through your third party TA?

when you look at your account (top right when viewed from my mobile phone in Safari) and press on it with your thumb you’ll see a box saying profile. if you press on profile you’ll get the change password option. which isn’t what you want. instead press on the little down arrow that i’ve highlighted in yellow. when you do that, the option to request invoice will appear. Btw - if took me a little while to figure this out too. Like you, i thought all i could do was change my password. One day i decided to see what would happen if i treated it like any other drop down menu i’ve ever used (or configured in a GUI) and voila! it worked! so don’t fret. it’s neither obvious nor intuitive.😉

@yipes999 Have just uploaded the latest spreadsheet .. have fun! Use the link shown above.

Have just updated and posted latest consolidated schedule for VE and VO. With respect to VO ships - no changes for Jupiter, Orion, Sky, and Neptune, which are scheduled thru Aug or Sept 2024. Sea and Mars and Saturn now scheduled thru Aug 2024; Star thru Sept 2024. Added three new itineraries for 2024: Grand Fjords & Iconic Viking Shores, West Indies & Iberian Peninsula; West Indies & Mediterranean. With respect to VE ships, it looks like Viking still hopes that Polaris will be ready to sail by this October. Everything up until then has been removed; however, Polaris' sailing of South America & Antarctic Discovery in Oct 2022 is nominally shown as SOLD OUT. Both Polaris and Octantis are now scheduled through Feb 2024; however no Arctic Adventure 😭-- hopefully that will appear in the Summer of 2024. Three new itineraries for 2023: Antarctica & South Georgia Island; Longitudinal World Cruise I; and Longitudinal World Cruise II. As before, if you already have a copy of the spreadsheet, just use the link provided on the ReadMe tab to download a fresh copy from DropBox. If you don't, use the link provided in my signature box (under General Stuff) or this direct link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/smx4xeq1yhq8ymi/Viking Ocean Cruises (2022 to 2024).xlsm?dl=0. No DropBox account required.

thanks!!! am double checking my spreadsheet right now. will be posting today. and yes - schedules for 2023 and 2024 for both VE and VO ships have been updated.

Yes. I did. Replied with a thanks too. Again today.

What magic do I need to peform to receive notifications like that? I've just been operating on the check the schedule periodically basis - and noticing if the number of itineraries for a given year or month have changed. I have a hidden tab where I track the number of itineraries by year and month and the number of sailings of each itinerary by year and month. Also by ship. 😊

@Clay Clayton I agree .. what a cute trick!

Just got home from Mediterranean & Adriatic Sojourn 2 days ago. Had a great time and today thought I'd take a peek at what's changed in the 2023 and 2024 schedules for VO and VE. Quite a lot! I have something else I need to deal with this week but will work on updating the spreadsheet next week. Just thought I'd give you a heads-up that an update is coming. Big question for me now is how long my "golfer's tan" acquired over 4 weeks will last!😀

been thinking more about this and that is if you really have a number of cruises in mind for particular dates - is to ask for quotes for them from Viking. You can get these for free - no obligation to pay a deposit.The quote will include a complete cruise itinerary - port arrival and departure times etc. The quote will be good for I think 2 days. if you don’t s get back to them with a deposit - poof! it goes away. Not sure what my Viking TA would do if i did this but yes - i have once or twice asked her to give me a quote for a potential trip that i then decided not to pursue beyond a quote. These have been basically singular quotes - not a whole bunch all at once. so…there you go. Have fun! 😁

not that i know of. the arrival and departure times are dependent on the direction of travel (sure of that) and may also (here am not so sure) be dependent on the exact date, i.e. the port arrival and departure times are set by the port in question. one “workaround” is to check on roll calls for a cruise you’re interested in and ask folks to share their itinerary. at the minimum this will serve as a good estimate of the actual port arrival & departure times for your cruise after you book it.

yes - am sitting on the 2nd level of the iRL Explorer’s Lounge on the Sky working on a rusty nail and reading with live music underway below me.

Decided to check the web site yesterday to see if the cancellations for Polaris were showing as more than SOLD OUT and the answer is "no". Looks like the plans are to shoot for a start in December in Antarctica. Decided to check out everything (Octantis and all of VO) and there have been changes. Starting to extend Octantis' schedule in 2023: sailings of Great Lakes Collection in Aug and Niagara & the Great Lakes in Sept. Decision by Viking and posted to "Updates on Current Sailings" on 24Mar22 "to cancel all departures of our Ukraine and Russia river itineraries through 2023. We will also replace scheduled stops in Russia for all 2022, 2023 and currently open 2024 ocean itineraries." Thus, Russia & the Baltic Sea (4 sailings) in June 2023 has been replaced by Scenic Scandinavia, affecting Jupiter & Neptune. The changes already made in 2022 to itineraries with a stop in St Petersburg or ports deemed too close to Russia will persist into 2023 (personal speculation). As before, if you already have a copy of the spreadsheet, just use the link provided on the ReadMe tab to download a fresh copy from DropBox. If you don't, use the link provided in my signature box (under General Stuff) or this direct link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/smx4xeq1yhq8ymi/Viking Ocean Cruises (2022 to 2024).xlsm?dl=0. No DropBox account required.

Guess I'll be posting an update but will wait until it's "official" on the viking website. Basically our cruise on Polaris in August has been cancelled because the ship is not ready. (Just got notice today) Am reading on the Viking Expeditions thread that sailings after ours have also been cancelled. Until I know for sure the extent of these cancellations, will hold off making any update to my spreadsheet. But going by the uniform "SOLD OUT" status on all Polaris cruises this Summer and Fall.....doesn't look good.

we got ours too and we booked for the first sailing of the Polaris. trying to decide what to do given that part of the arctic trip was was paid for with a voucher from a cruise canceled in 2021. And we have stuff booked already for next year.

As requested -- I am starting up a separate thread in which to announce the availability of updated versions of the Combined Cruise Schedule for Viking Ocean I first developed and then posted to DropBox in October 2017. It's a spreadsheet covering all of VO's ships and cruises in three year increments starting with the current year. I posted the schedule, to the extent known, for 2019-2021 last December and did a slight update to it late last week. My signature block provides the link to where it's posted on DropBox along with instructions for how to download it as an individual file. No DropBox account is required. To start off this thread, here's the link - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8pm1betyh91wlhf/AABBcPIWuqWJQtR5JrNSFOqMa?dl=0. If you have any questions about how to use the spreadsheet -- feel free to contact me directly using the contact info provided in the ReadMe tab. I check the VO page periodically to see what's been added or modified. Right now the ships are not scheduled beyond March 2021 (Sky, Sea, Jupiter); April 2021 (Star), and May 2021 (Orion, Sun). As the schedules get updated and of course when cruise dates for Venus (and later ships) are published, I'll update the spreadsheet accordingly. And announce it here.